IIT Gandhinagar Releases White Paper On COVID Care Facility To Help Other Institutions

Other institutions and communities across the country will benefit from their experience in setting up an in-house COVID care facility, IIT Gandhinagar said.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar has come out with a white paper on the COVID-19 Care Facility it established in the campus in April, 2021, during the second wave of the pandemic. Other institutions and communities across the country will benefit from their experience in setting up an in-house COVID care facility, an official statement said. The white paper is publicly available on the official website of the institute. Explaining the motive behind developing and releasing the white paper, Professor Sudhir Jain, Director, IITGN, said, “We are experiencing an unprecedented global health crisis that demands unconventional and urgent action to support and care for each other.” “At IITGN, we did not have the benefit of a guiding document or a Standard Operating Procedure that we could follow at the start...This Whitepaper is released with the hope that our experience and lessons can inform other institutions and organiations interested in developing similar facilities to support their communities during the pandemic….” Prof Jain added.